I still use my Pro-930 as the bedroom TV. Still going strong with no problems. However, I'm concerned about dust collection so I will be disconnecting the STB today and giving it a thorough dusting/wipe.

I use my 930 for OTA signals exclusively (have no cable or satelitte) and the tuner does an awesome job of pulling in TV signals from far away. I have the fortunate benefit of pulling in Canadian and American broadcast signals since Toronto is in the ideal location to benefit from being so close to Buffalo.

My main TV for the living room is the Pro-111FD calibrated by D-Nice. However, when I watch the 930 in the bedroom, it is no slouch. The picture quality, IMO, is top notch and will compete with many other displays on the market today in terms of picture quality.

Like other posters have said I hope to have my Pro-930 for many more years, however, I hope that black media box doesn't break down. If it does I don't think I would invest money to repair it. However, I only use it for OTA TV viewing so hopefully I'm putting less stress on it and therefore will last longer.

I still have my PRO 910 HD, but it's got a ton of hours on it and it has developed a bad spot in the center of the panel. - Kind of lightbulb shaped and about 1/2 the height of the screen in the upper center.
On light backgrounds like skies, you can really see it. Also starting to see breakdown in the faces that move into that area, blotchy dark green pixilation, usually ends up right in the middle of someones face.
Otherwise... still a beautiful picture, but I have always been less than satisfied with the back levels on these earlier gen panels.

I have this mounted above my fireplace (rarely used, please on't ask if that caused the problem) and have the 10 meter umbilical run up the facia of the fireplace thru the ceiling and back down in the wal to the side going into a media rack that holds the media box, receiver, DVD etc...
It's a perfect arrangement for my area.

Not wanting to alter the cable and location of the panel or receiver set-up, I bought a PRO 930 HD (last of the Media Box models) on eBay, it arrived yesterday.
I can just swap out th epanel and media box - no muss or fuss...

I am curious about your thoughts on the PQ difference between the 2 sets. Any comments?
Also on a spec sheet I saw, this was called "Kuro PRO-930HD". Is this really the 1st gen KURO?

Will try to set them up side-by side and post pics when I get the time this weekend.

Also, I want to check the hours on both sets - Can anyone tell me how to do that?

"Also, I want to check the hours on both sets - Can anyone tell me how to do that?"

More info on service panel - hours used
With TV Off, do the following sequence on your remote:
Press "Display" and wait at least 3 seconds (I wait 4)
Press "Left", "Up", "Left", "Right", and "Power On" in sequence
The TV should power up and display the Service Menu
From here, to access the viewing hours info:
Press "Mute" repeatedly until the "Panel Fact" screen is displayed
Press "Enter"
Press the down arrow key once to scroll the page and you should see the viewing hours info.

To get the actual "panel on time" do the following once in the service menu:
Press MUTE (3 times to go to “PANEL FACTS”) and press SELECT.
Press DOWN (1 time) to page through each menu (for instance, to see the multiple pages that make up the INFORMATION section).

Well it just stopped on its own on Sunday. I do remember some funny stuff with DST.

I'm not able to pull in a few local HD QAM channels. I'm wondering (hoping) if it's a signal strength issue, rather than tuner.

I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but I think it will still be your tuner. The same thing happened on my PRO-1130, and the blue light flashes do not happen constantly. It flashes the typical code for a bit, then stops for a while. Maybe you will be lucky and it's just signal strength, but from my experience, that wasn't the case.

Thanks for the reply. The blue lights started back up again, and I agree it's probably the tuner. I had the tuner replaced under warranty (only time I've EVER purcahsed an extended warranty) about 3 years in, which was probably 3 or 4 years ago now. IIRC, it was a very straightforward repair, much like swapping a video card on a PC.

But at this point, I don't know if it'd be worth the $$$. I could always just use a cablebox or use for DVD's. I'm roughly starting the process of a basement HT, and this panel could supplement the PJ pretty well maybe.

I have an old Pioneer 1130HD Elite Plasma TV and I just recently got rid of cable and hooked up an OTA antenna to the tv tuners in my 1130HD. I have the audio going out to a sony HTIB via HDMI. for some reason when I use the OTA tuner in the 1130HD, it wants to send the audio out to the built in speakers (which are disconnected) rather than out to the AV receiver.

for the life of me I can't seem to figure out how to get the audio to go out to the AV receiver when watching OTA TV. does anybody have any ideas? It really would be appreciated.

I have an old Pioneer 1130HD Elite Plasma TV and I just recently got rid of cable and hooked up an OTA antenna to the tv tuners in my 1130HD. I have the audio going out to a sony HTIB via HDMI. for some reason when I use the OTA tuner in the 1130HD, it wants to send the audio out to the built in speakers (which are disconnected) rather than out to the AV receiver.

for the life of me I can't seem to figure out how to get the audio to go out to the AV receiver when watching OTA TV. does anybody have any ideas? It really would be appreciated.

The HDMI inputs on the back of the media receiver don't support ARC. Try using an optical cable to get the sound from the TV to your AVR

I thought that might be the case - I actually connected up the optical cable too and still no luck. When i adjust the volume, I get the pioneer volume bar on the screen as if it is adjusting its won speaker. Is there a setting that will direct it to send the audio out over the optical instead of the "internal" speakers?

LAST RESORT ALERT! I've had my 5060 for about nine years - it's been an awesome TV, other than some slight brightness flickering that was annoying but not horrible. But now, I'm ready to install my new Samsung because it's developed a weird "blotchy/compression" issue. See attached pics. Basically, it looks like the color scale is rough - like how it'd look if you incorrectly set a EGA or VGA monitor 20 years ago. It seems TV based, not source based - all sources have the problem. Mostly on reds. I've re-seated all the two cables between media box and TV. Cut power, etc. It's almost like either a cap went bad or there's a NR setting that went haywire. Any last resort suggestions? Thanks in advance!

Well it seems as though the inevitable has happened and both HDMI inputs on the media receiver of my PRO-1130 seem to be dead.

I've been searching on eBay to try and find a replacement but not much luck so far. Does anyone happen to know if the the receiver for the 5060 would work with the 1130? I'm assuming it's the panel itself that makes it the Elite and the box itself is just for the connectivity, but I don't want to drop the cash to find my assumption is wrong.

Strange thing is, I just checked my hours again and it now reads 35,016H 08M. Not sure where I got that number from in 2012! Attachment 445882

I bought a Pioneer PDP-436PE in 2005 and it's still going strong. I downloaded the service manual, because I would like to check the TIME ON and cycles count for this panel. Care to share how to enter to the factory screen in your picture? TIA

More info on service panel - hours used With TV Off, do the following sequence on your remote: Press "Display" and wait at least 3 seconds (I wait 4) Press "Left", "Up", "Left", "Right", and "Power On" in sequence The TV should power up and display the Service Menu From here, to access the viewing hours info: Press "Mute" repeatedly until the "Panel Fact" screen is displayed Press "Enter" Press the down arrow key once to scroll the page and you should see the viewing hours info. To get the actual "panel on time" do the following once in the service menu: Press MUTE (3 times to go to “PANEL FACTS”) and press SELECT. Press DOWN (1 time) to page through each menu (for instance, to see the multiple pages that make up the INFORMATION section).

Using above lay-out, I'm not sure which button you refer to as "Display"? As I've never used these (in-the-guts) menus I translate your text into button selections. Could you please check for me. I don't want to break any of the the default settings.

1) Hours used With TV Off, do the following sequence on your remote: Press "Display" and wait at least 3 seconds (I wait 4) Press "Left", "Up", "Left", "Right", and "Power On" in sequence The TV should power up and display the Service Menu From here

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2) To access the viewing hours info: Press "Mute" repeatedly until the "Panel Fact" screen is displayed Press "Enter" Press the down arrow key once to scroll the page and you should see the viewing hours info

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3) To get the actual "panel on time" do the following once in the service menu: Press MUTE (3 times to go to “PANEL FACTS”) and press SELECT. Press DOWN (1 time) to page through each menu (for instance, to see the multiple pages that make up the INFORMATION section)